links for 2009-06-18
June 18, 2009-
The shallow outsider interpretation is: Oh, look, they're aligning themselves with the West. That puts it in the wrong context and ignores the complex history of the head scarf in Iran, where women have been punished both for going uncovered and covered.
Personally, as a symbol, I like to think of a women in a chador alongside a young lady in a silk scarf: These women are wildly different, but they're both protesting what they believe to be a corrupt election.
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The whole article reeks of 'look at these people who aren't like you getting preferential treatment' – if it's not Gypsies, it's immigrants or Muslims. And it's the type of article that (sorry to repeat, again) fuels the agenda of the BNP.
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Religious impact of a BNP government; Sports and athletics
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Social and legal impact of a BNP government (cont…)
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Social and legal impact of a BNP government
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Medical impact of a BNP government; Economic impact of a BNP government; Military impact of a BNP government
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Role models, affiliations, and policies of senior members of the BNP
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The study into rape and HIV, by the country's Medical Research Council (MRC), asked men to tap their answers into a Palm Pilot device to guarantee anonymity. The method appears to have produced some unusually frank responses.
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Newsha Tavakolian, a 28-year-old photographer who was born and raised in Tehran, has been covering Iran for Polaris Images since 2001 and has also worked as a freelancer for The Times since 2004.
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There is no petition to draft. There is no policy to fight. Yet, of the 250 top-grossing films in any given year, 6% are directed by women; of the 50 top-grossing movies each year, roughly 5 star or focus on women. In 80 years of Oscar history, with roughly 250 directors receiving a nomination for best director, 3 nominations went to female directors. No woman director ever received an Oscar.
It would be so much easier if someone would just flat out say it: “You’re not a director. You’re a girl.”
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I think this is all correct, as are the things Meyerson says about J Street and everything Henrick Hertzberg says here. But I do think there’s one other dynamic that often gets missed here, namely the extent to which the mainstream “pro-Israel” organizations in the United States found themselves becoming more ideological—and more fundamentally right-wing—in recent years.
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As I read the far too brief account of her experiences, the following is what really garnered by attention, “I didn’t know what homophobia was until I left the reserve.” Growing up in a community that is respectful to trans, two spirited or gender queer bodies is not a common experience.
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They call them "enfants mauvais souvenirs," children of bad memories. During the 1994 Rwandan genocide, hundreds of thousands of Tutsi women were systematically raped and forced into sexual servitude by members of extremist Hutu militia groups. Many of these women became pregnant. Since abortion is illegal in Rwanda, some resorted to back-alley procedures or traveled to the neighboring Democratic Republic of the Congo to terminate their pregnancies. Others gave birth and abandoned the babies or gave them away to orphanages. Still others kept their children and are now struggling to raise them alone in post-genocide Rwanda.
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Why do so many women see food as a frenemy? By A.K. Whitney
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The Obama Effect influences the Lebanese vote, the British National Party picks up their first two seats, and Iran prepares for its election.
